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The Code
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

The Code

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-07-07
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  • Publisher: Penguin

One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silic...

Cities of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Cities of Knowledge

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental market creations but "cities of knowledge"--planned communities of scientific production that were shaped an...

Seeing Silicon Valley
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Seeing Silicon Valley

Also published in French as Visages de la Silicon Valley.

Elizabeth & Margaret
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Elizabeth & Margaret

From the internationally renowned bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, Princess Margaret.

Defining the Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Defining the Age

The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they were published. In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished contributors to consider how well Bell’s ideas captured their historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into today’s world. Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how Be...

America at the Ballot Box
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

America at the Ballot Box

A chronological collection of essays, America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate both the fundamental character of American political democracy, and its evolution from the early Republic to the late twentieth century.

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

"Donald Trump took office in 2017 amid an increasingly polarized political field. He quickly carved out a loyal base among the radical wing of the Republican party, dominated the news cycle with an endless stream of controversies, and, with the support of his voting base and party, presided over one of the most publicized, dramatic, and contentious one-term presidencies in American history. In The Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Julian Zelizer gathers leading American historians to put President Trump and his administration into political and historical context. These scholars offer strikingly original assessments of the central issues that shaped the Trump years, including the #MeToo and #Bl...

Queen Elizabeth II's Guide to Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Queen Elizabeth II's Guide to Life

Discover how you, too, could put into practice some of Her Majesty's traits to help overcome adversity, find inner strength and present yourself with composure, even when all about you seems in chaos.

Songs of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Songs of America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-11
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  • Publisher: Random House

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw “Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw form an irresistible duo—connecting us to music as an unsung force in our nation's history.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Through all the years of strife and triumph, America has been shaped not just by our elected leaders and our formal politics but also by our music—by the lyrics, performers, and instrumentals that have helped to carry us through the dark days and to celebrate the bright ones. From “The Star-Spangled Banner” to “Born in the U.S.A.,” Jon Meacham and Tim McGra...

Uncrowned Queen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Uncrowned Queen

The first comprehensive biography in three decades of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII, the first Tudor king.